Nagamori Awards


The Nagamori Award is an international award given by Nagamori Foundation of Kyoto, Japan. The award is to recognize outstanding researchers and engineers working on electrical and electronics engineering, especially related to motors, power generation, actuators, and energy related topics.

History

The award was founded by Shigenobu Nagamori in 2014, with the purpose of recognizing global researchers and engineers who have made outstanding and innovative technological advances in the area of electrical motors and power generation.

Awards details

The award is made annually to outstanding early to mid-career researchers and engineers. There will be six awards given annually, with one of the awards named as the Grand Nagamori award. The prize money of two million yen is awarded to each regular Nagamori award while the grand award comes with a cash prize of five million yen. An award ceremony is held in Kyoto, Japan around September each year, where winners will be present to receive their prizes.

Recent winners

The following are some of the recent winners.
YearNameContributions
2022Gianmario PellegrinoFor synchronous and PM-synchronous reluctance motor drives - theory, design, and control methods
2021Tom OomenFor advanced motion control for precision mechatronics: identification, learning, and control
2020Chris GeradaFor contributions to advancements in high performance electrical machines and their industrial application and uptake
2019Takashi KatoFor improving efficiency of vehicle traction motors
2018Bulent SarliogluFor pioneering high efficiency and high density classical electric motors
2017Yoshitaka IwajiFor contributions to control of synchronous permanent magnet motors
2016Hiroshi FujimotoFor contributions to improved safety and efficiency of electric vehicle motors
2015Kan AkatsuFor contributions to high performance and low cost SR motors

YearNameContributions
2022Huijun GaoFor contributions to the advanced control for mechatronic systems
2022Yunwei Ryan LiFor contribution to the PWM, control and converter topology of medium voltage high power industrial drives
2022Burak OzpineciFor low cost, high efficiency, compact electric motor drives for more electrified transportation systems
2022Maryam SaeedifardFor contributions to highly-efficient, power-dense and fault-tolerant multilevel converter-based medium-voltage drives
2022Akio YamamotoFor pioneering research and development on theoretical models and applied systems for electrostatic film actuators
2021Tobias GeyerFor research in and industrial productization of predictive control methods maximizing the power and efficiency of electrical drives
2021Leila ParsaFor multi-phase permanent magnet motors, design, analysis, and control
2021Ronghai QuFor flux modulation machines – theory, topologies, and applications
2021Akshay Kumar RathoreFor optimal extremely low switching frequency control of medium voltage high power industrial motor drives
2021Jun UedaFor cellular actuators inspired by biological muscles and their human assistive applications
2020Yasuhisa HirataFor development of motion control technology for passive robot using servo brake actuators for high safety and low power consumption
2020Alireza KhalighFor pioneering research and development on design and control of high-efficiency and high-power-density electric-motor-integrated wide bandgap power electronics
2020Shihua LiFor contributions to the nonlinear modeling, analysis and multi-disturbance rejection control solution for precise motion control systems
2020Annette MuetzeFor increasing the reliability, efficiency, and utilization of variable speed drive systems
2020Jin WangFor leading-edge research and development of wide bandgap power device based electric machine drives
2019Radu BojoiFor contributions to electrical drives control
2019Ayman M. EL-RefaieFor contributions to high speed permanent magnet machines
2019Mohammad S. IslamFor contributions to electric motors and electromagnetic actuators
2019Jianxin ShenFor contributions to permanent magnet electrical machines
2019Bram VanderborghtFor contributions to self-healing actuators with applications in health and manufacturing
2018Jose Alfonso Antonino DaviuFor contributions to advanced fault diagnostic techniques for reliable conditioning of electric motors
2018Jun-ichi ItohFor contributions to the development of technology for adjustable speed drive system
2018Seiichiro KatsuraFor contributions to integrated design and application of motion control
2018Hiroshi ToshiyoshiFor contributions to industrial applications of MEMS actuators
2018Bin YaoFor contributions to adaptive robust control of high performance mechatronic systems
2017Takashi AbeFor contributions to the development of a variable field flux motor
2017Satomi HattoriFor contributions to the development of high efficiency low vibration motors
2017Makoto IwasakiFor contributions to the development of high precision and position techniques for mechatronic systems
2017Masaharu KomoriFor contributions to rotation transmission mechanism
2017Minh C. TaFor contributions to control techniques for improved performance and efficiency of electric motor drives
2017Masatsugu TakemotoFor contributions to high performance and high functionality motors
2017Kanokvate TungpimolrutFor contributions to motor drive system development
2016Jumpei ArataFor contributions to embedded elasticity mechanism and applications to medicine and industry
2016Elena Andreevna LomonovaFor contributions to advanced multi-degrees permanent magnet actuation and vibration isolation
2016Tomoaki MashimoFor contributions to micro ultrasonic motors
2016Taketsune NakamuraFor contributions to high-temperature superconducting induction synchronous motors
2016Atsushi NishikawaFor contributions to the design of medical actuator and endoscopic robot for minimally invasive surgery
2015Wolfgang GruberFor contributions to design, optimization and manufacturing of bearingless slice motor topologies
2015Yasuhisa HasegawaFor contributions to clinical applications of upper limb support for disabled patients
2015Chun-Yu HsiaoFor contributions to design of high performance permanent magnet synchronous motors
2015Takeshi MoritaFor contributions to basic driving principles of piezoelectric actuators
2015Omar ScaglioneFor contributions to iron hysteresis and enhanced Kalman filter for synchronous motors